Recycled wool pants tutorial

10 February 2010

I've put together a little tutorial for the wool pants I made from woollen jerseys.They are really simple and quick to make, I'm sure there are other tutorials out there on how to do this, but anyway, for my lovely readers, this is how I did it. So now you can make some too!

Firstly, find yourself a lovely soft old jersey, the bigger the sleeves, the bigger your pants will be.

Then cut the sleeves off like this.

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Next find a pair of pants that fit the child you are making these for, so that you can check how long the crotch seam needs to be.

Then cut down the seamline on each sleeve to that measurement. Remember that you are going to add a waistband to the top so take that into account.

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Turn one leg inside out, and put the other leg into the inside-out one. (The right sides of your fabric will be touching).

Then stitch the crotch seams together as shown. You can ether use an overlocker or a zig zag stitch on your sewing machine.

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Turn them out the right way and this is what you will now have.

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Cut a piece of the waistband off your old jersey.

It needs to be long enough to fit comfortably stretched around our childs waist.

Sew it together as shown to make a waistband for the top of your pants.

Mark the centres and sides of the pants and waistband with pins (can you see the pins in there on the second photo?). This helps you centre the waistband evenly on the pants.

Match up the pins and overlock or zig zag stitch the waistband on, stretching it out as you sew.